AusTraits

Melaleuca pauperiflora subsp. fastigiata

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Melaleuca pauperiflora subsp. fastigiata Barlow

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): WA

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), Gosper_2018 (6), Gosper_2022 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (3), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 16 traits from 32 records in 10 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response
  • resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (4) [sources: Barrett_2009; Clarke_2015; Gosper_2018; Gosper_2022]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Clarke_2015]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Gosper_2018; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Gosper_2018; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (3); soil_seedbank_absent (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Gosper_2018; Gosper_2022]
  • serotiny (categorical): serotinous (2) [sources: Gosper_2018; Gosper_2022]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.75 mg (0.75-0.75 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3.6 m (1.2-6 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Gosper_202277C. R. Gosper, B. P. Miller, R. V. Gallagher, J. Kinloch, R. van Dongen, E. Adams, S. Barrett, A. Cochrane, S. Comer, L. McCaw, R. G. Miller, S. M. Prober, and C. J. Yates. “Mapping risk to plant populations from short fire intervals via relationships between maturation period and environmental productivity”. Plant Ecology (2022). doi: 10.1007/s11258-022-01229-6.
Gosper_201866C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, G. D. Cook, J. M. Harvey, A. C. Liedloff, W. L. McCaw, K. R. Thiele, and S. M. Prober. “A conceptual model of vegetation dynamics for the unique obligate-seeder eucalypt woodlands of south-western Australia”. Austral Ecology 43.6 (2018), pp. 681-695. doi: 10.1111/aec.12613.
Barrett_200944S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Kew_2019_613Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.